Vaccine Update- People Most Likely To Contract Covid-19

Vaccine update – even with the current level o vaccine roll-out and administration, do you know the category of people most likely to be infected by the Covid-19?

They are workers and the public, who are in closed settings like National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) camps, hospitals, offices and hostels.

They are thus priority in the federal engorgement’s vaccination agenda, the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has said.
Not only  could vaccinated  people get infected again, they could also infect other people, he said on Saturday in Abuja.

The minister spoke at the South-South zonal town hall meeting on COVID-19 in Edo state when he pleaded with elders across the country to endorse COVID-19 vaccination and encourage citizens to get vaccinated.

“The most reliable tool to protect ourselves and our families, remains first, compliance with the now established public health measures, and secondly, the delivery of vaccines to citizens”, he said in a statement released and signed by the Ministry of Health’s spokesperson, Segun Adetola.

“It pleased the Almighty to reveal the secret to scientists to develop a solution to the disease.

“We know now that high national COVID-19 vaccination coverage is urgent, to prevent the asymptomatic, infected persons from infecting others unknowingly, who are vulnerable or not yet vaccinated.

“Government will be advised to reduce the risk to Nigerians, by requiring vaccination of 70% of the population.

“Workers and the public, who are in close settings like NYSC camps, hospitals, offices and hostels, are particularly exposed and must be a priority for vaccination.

“Especially, in view of the very easily transmissible Delta variant and growing evidence that persons not vaccinated, are at higher risk of death from COVID-19 infection, than the vaccinated.

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“Taking the vaccine is also not just for self-protection, but a civic duty to curtail virus spread. We all have a critical role to play in the effort to stop the pandemic,“ he said on the vaccine update